landhold

English

Etymology

From land +‎ hold.

Noun

landhold (plural landholds)

1. A landholding, a piece of land that is held (owned).
   • 1977, Benjamin P. Murdzek, Emigration in Polish social-political thought, 1870-1914, East European Monographs:

     This was especially apparent in Galicia where, as a result of the increasing population, the number and proportion of "dwarf" landholds was increasing alarmingly. Ludkiewicz found that of the total rural landholds in 1859, 35.6 percent were ...

   • 1981, Richard F. Pourade, Last of the Californios:

     Casting about for means to feed his family, Tacho, in some desperation, took a job running a ranch at San Carlos Viejo, ironically, once a landhold of Buenaventura Arce, and then in possession of another of his descendants, [...]

   • 1986, Nicholas N. Patricios, International Handbook on Land Use Planning, Greenwood Publishing Group:

     Consequently Cortes, Alvarado, and other principals of the conquest became owners of landholds larger than that of any noble in Spain. The crown, unwilling or unable to limit the claims of those ambitious captains, resorted to profit ...